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race memory en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A supposed memory, present at birth, and that exists in the absence of sensory experience, that arises from the common experience of one's ancestors.
   • Even in my short life I had learned as much as that - or had inherited it in that race memory which we call instinct. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

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Synonyms

racial memory · genetic memory